Community Nugget: Get Text Rectangle font tip

[TCPlomp]

Have you ever wanted to get the text size for a given text, LabVIEW has an easy VI for this:

Get text Rect 

Wouldn't it be nice if we could connect this to the property node of a string control:

Unfortunatly the Fonts don't match, so we end up with the following code:

But recently I found out that NI has created a little VI in vi.lib that does this conversion:

The helper VI is located at the following location:

vi.lib\Utility\error.llb\Convert property node font to graphics font.vi

Please be aware that NI might change this VI for their own will, so you might want to make a working copy for your code.

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Ton

Message Edited by TCPlomp on 08-06-2010 08:06 PM

[Ben]

Nice find Ton.

This prompts me to ask out loud "Why is there so little use of type definitions in LV core?"

There are a lot of other nodes that would alos benefit from type defs.

Ben